Susan Goldman Rubin
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the fashion designer, from her early life of poverty, to her successes in the Paris fashion world, her collaboration with well-known artists of her day, and the influence of her innovative designs on later fashion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created ... quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee's Bend for children, ... Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this ... group of women and their unique quilting traditions"--Amazon.com.
5) Roy's house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to Roy's house! Come on in and take a look around. There is a big sofa with room for lots of friends, three red fish swimming in a bowl, a yellow chair for reading, and, of course, Roy's studio, filled with paintbrushes. Susan Goldman Rubin pairs her simple narrative style with the energetic works of Roy Lichtenstein to create an early concept book that is also a fun and accessible introduction to one of the twentieth century's most iconic...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the events that shaped Georgia O'Keeffe's art and how art influenced O'Keeffe's life in return.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A high-action portrait of the infamous historical pirate who pursued high-seas ambitions as a youth before settling down in New Orleans describes how he became a respected businessman, made pivotal contributions to the War of 1812 and exposed a British invasion plot.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On May 6, 1945, when members of the 11th Armored Division of the U.S. Army marched into the Mauthausen concentration camp, they were presented with an extraordinary gift. A group of prisoners, had surreptitiously pieced together a U.S. flag with an extra row of stars. Colonel Richard Seibel had the flag proudly flown over the camp as a symbol of freedom. This inspiring account of the liberation of one of the Third Reich's most infamous camps is a...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains an extensive view of suffrage from the Founding Fathers to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to today's voter suppression controversies, and explains the barriers people of color, Indigenous people, and immigrants face. -- amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
vii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Children's
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
107 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century art. Now young readers have the chance to explore the development of a fascinating artist while delighting in the very child-friendly art that has made him so acclaimed. With her deft touch, critically-acclaimed...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1958, in Linz, Austria, demonstrators interrupted a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank, claiming that Anne Frank never existed. Determined to prove otherwise, Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, set out to find the Gestapo officer who arrested the Franks years before.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her exotic bohemian life.